Combined bottle-stopper and pulling attachment therefor.



, 'PATENTED 0015.2, 1906. c. E. MoMANUS. COMBINED BOTTLE STOPPER AND PULLING ATTACHMENT THEREFOR.

APPLIOATION FILED DEO.21,1904.

r a no. 832,336.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES MoMANUS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y. 7 -COMBINED BOTTLE-STOPPQER AND PULLING ATTACHMENT THEREFOR.

Patented Oct. 2, 19 06.

.Toia ll whom it vita concern.-

1' Be it known that 1, CHARLES E. MoMANUs, 1 a citizen of the United States, residing at New York city, in. the county and State of New York have invented new and useful Improvements in a Combined Bottle-Stopper and Pulling Attachment Therefor, of-

- These and other objects are attained by means of the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which Figure l is a View in side elevation and partial section of a cork or stopper with a wire loop surrounding the same prior to its attachment to said cork or stop er. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing a furt er development of the method in attaching the wire loop to the cork or stopper. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a cork or sto per with my pulling attachment fully applie thereto. Fig. 4 is a central vertical section of a. cork or stopper slitted from its lower end upward, as is required for my purpose, and provided with a reinforce-bar, which Tmay use with certain qualities of corks or stoppers. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the reinforce-bar. Fig. 6 1s a side view of the neck of a bottle havinga cork or stopper thereinand provided with my attachment. 4

Referring to the drawings for a more particular description of my invention, the numeral 1 designates a cork or sto per, which may be of any suitable size an shape, dependent upon its purposes and the contour of the inner surface of the neck of the bottle with which it is to be used. The stopper 1 is slitted, as at 2, from the bottom'or inner end thereof upward a sufiicient distance within the body of the stop er centrally to provide two hsemicircular resilient members or halves 3, t e

pear. orming the slit 2 no portion of t e stopper material is removed. The slit 2 teri1[1lrpose of which will hereinafter a minates in a plain transverse wall 4, extending from side to side of the stopper.

The first step in the method of applying the pullin attachment to the stopper is illustrated in ig. 1. An endless loop 5 is formed of a piece of flexible wire of suitable gage and length, and the ends of said wireare twisted together or otherwise united, as at 6. The

stopper l-is placed within .the endless wire loop 5, as shown in Fig. 1, andthe loop 5 is then drawn upward, the twisted ends 6'ofthe loop being centrally disposed in the slit 2, as shown in Fig. 2, and said loop bein pulled within the slit until the wire reac es the together at the top of the stopper and iiW'lSi'r.

ed together, as at 8, to form a ring 9 at the top of the cork. It is intended that the twisted portion 8 of the wire shall be'given sufficient tension to embed the side strands 7 slightly within the sides and upper edges of the cork.

In certain qualities of corks it is found desirable to reinforce the terminal wall 4 of the slit. This is especially desirable in cases whereinferior qualities of cork are used or where fine wire is used for the ulling-loop. In Figs. 4 and 5 Ihave illustrate a reinforcebarfllO inserted transversely through the stopper just below the terminal wall 4 of the slit. This reinforce-bar 10, as shown, is rovided with a pointed end 11 andis slightly concavo-convex in cross-section, the bar being made of thin sheet metal and being of a length slightly less than the diameter of the stopper. When tension is exerted u on the wire to form the ring 9., thev twisted en s of'the loop are brought firmly against the reinforcebar 10 and revented from cuttin .the cork, even should itbe of inferior ua ity. pointedend 11 of the reinforcear 10 serves as an enterin point in the insertion of the bar in line wit the slit 2 at its terminal wall 4.

Referring to Fig. 6, it will be noticed that when the stopper 1 is forced into the mouth of a bottle or othencontainer the two resili- 4 inserted in theringgmnd the cork ma, berea'dily withdrawn. It will v be noticed t at the wire loop has no terminal "ends outside the cork, that a, continuous 5 smooth puller is provided and that the wire will not come in contact with the contents of the-container ,or bottle. By means of my method of applying the attachment tostoppers I can separately form the endless loops of the required length in large numbers and subsequently attach them to the slitted corks, thus materially economizin-g in theleborland cost of production of'devices of this 7 character. Y i 5 -Having thus full described my invention, what I cleim,end esire to secure by Letters .Patent, is v 1. A pulling attachmentforstoppersbonsisting'ofa. Wire loop haviniits terminal ends 20 twisted together, a stopper like apen n ijm f scribed.

eving a slit in its assess lower end mind s term-inelwell the twisted ends of the loop being drawn into the slit in V i thestopper, seid loop being embedded in the sides and upper edges of the stopper, for the purpose described, end the strands being :25 twisted together at the top of the cork- -,to forr'n e drawing-ring, substantiiiill as de 2. In a cork-pulling ettschmentjh slitted cork, a curved reinforce-bar at the terminal 3o well of the slit and in line therewith, an endless wire loop passing throngh the slit Vinsontact-with the reinforce-bar, and a .pul'lingring formed in the loop at the top of theicork, substantially ss'descr1bed.

CHARLE E MQM NU In presence of,

RALPH =J. BUoKs,

WILLIAM Honoms. 

